The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-03
FLORIDA,

| FLORIDA.
| Sugar cane is in market at Tampa.
Crops throughout Gadsdeu county are
good
Bronsons greatest need is a first class
| school house
A postoffice has been established at Owens,
| DeSoto county.
| The Methodist church at Bronson is rap
idly approaching completion.
The railroad company has bought Rey
nolds mill at Carrabelle, and men are at
work to get it in running order.
At meeting in the Masonic Hall, Apop-
ka City last Saturday, a temperance club
was organized in the interested the local
| option law.
A school of porpoises was seen at Jack
sonville Thursday out in the river. They
seemed too much afraid of civilization to
venture near the wharves.
Wine making is going OH at Welaka.
From the scuppernong grape one party will
make some 300 gallons. 1t is the best crop
that can be raised in Florida.
The new saw mill of Dallow & Russell at
| Welaka will soon be in operation, the head
blocks for which they have been waiting
for some weeks having arrived.
S. j. Wells, who lives within a mile or
| two of San Mateo, heard the roar of the
breakers after the last storm as they broke
| on the beach, over twenty miles distant
John M Love is candidate for Apoplxa's
| City Clerk and Treaslireship. Page Nc
| Kinney is a candidate for reelection as
Mayor Apopkaites will vote for three AL
dermen to day.
John Bradley, formerly chief clerk and
| cashier of the Peoples Line of steamers at
Jacksonville. has been appointed agent of
the Plant Steamship Line at Tampa, and
took charge Aug. 10.
If fertilizer factory were started on
| Hooker's Point, it would prove paying in
vestment and afford means to Tampa fisher
mon to dispose OF all fish for which they
could not find ready sale.
Work upon the railroad has commenced,
and Csrrabelle, with its magnificent harbor,
will very soon be the great attraction for
capitalists. Every room in the hotel is en-
gagged for two months ahead.
A colored man living out in the neigh
borhood of DIR. Estes place, about half a
mile from Palatka met with serious acct
dent while cutting wood. BY slip of the
ak one blow fell on his foot and went clear
through.
In the hummock near Palatka there is a
careless weed that has grown to large pro-
| portions-so much so that birds of the air
can alight in its branches. 1t is an evidence
of what Florida soil might produce if prop
erly titled.
w C. Lightfoot and o. A Bush, of the
Barlow Informant typographical force,
| challenge any two compositors in Polk or
Orange counties in typographical contest.
They believe they are the fasest in South
Florida, but only challenge the two counties.
Capt T. j. Shine commanding the Or
lando Guards, intends to secure twenty pay
members, who are to pay annually $25.
| This is in conformity to the law. and re-
| lieves such members of active duty, jury
duty, etc, yet gives all the rights and priv
ileges of other members.
Saturday Joseph Robes exhibited at
Tampa large, ripe, well-matured orange
| of last years crop, one nearly ripe of Feb
| ruarv of this year, one little smaller from
| April, one as large as a hickory nut from
July, and bloom, all picked from the same
tree He says one-third of his trees are now
in bloom.
Mrs. Sarah Mather and Henry Fryett
were married at the brides residence, at
Jacksonville, Thursday, Rev. R. H. Weller
officiating. The bride is well known in
jacksonville, having lived there for nearly
twenty years She has just passed her sew
enty-sixth mile post, while the groom is on
the shady side of 80.
At Pensacola Wednesday it was dis
covered that a fire had been set underneath
the dry kiln on the old Harvey & Hilliard
property at the intersection of Palafox and
Garden streets, and that, for some reason
unknown, the flames had failed to com
municate with the floor above to such an
extent as to cause a conhagration.
At Tampa to-day the plans Of new brick
building to cover Ghiras corner in the
burnt district will be submitted to the ar
chitects for bids. A. Ross has determined
to put up a block to cover his Franklin
street front also. This gives assurance that
the last reminder of the fire, at least on east
Franklin, will soon have disappeared.
Last Monday while out fishing T. R.
Hair, of Tampa, caught a large cat fish He
held it up near his right breast to break its
back when the fish gave sudden jump and
filmed him right over his heart, the fin enter
ing about three-quarters of an inch and
breaking off even with the flesh. Mr.. Hair
took out his pocketknife and cut the fin out
and at last accounts was doing we'll
The election in Polk county Thursday re-
suited in a decisive victory for the dry
ticket. This town went 1875 majority for no
whisky. Good order prevailed and the
ladies gave big temperance dinner in
honor of the victory, to which the public
was invited. Blue ribbons, emblelns of
temperance, fioated everywhere At Au-
burndale the vote was for and As against
whisky
The bond of T. K. Spencer, as Deputy
accepted and approved by the Treasury De-
partment, and Tampa is now to all intents
port of entry. The fact that heretofore
everything had to be entered at Key West
caused considerable annoyance and delay,
but now that the hindrance has been re-
moved, it will be of mich advantage to the
city, and especially to the cigar manufac-
tories. The duties collected during the
month of August amounted TO about 81 roo
More is being done now in the way of
building than ever before in the history of
Dade City. The construction of several
stores, a handsome depot by the Florida
Railway and Navigation Co, and several
new residences have greatly improved the
appearance of the town, and added to it an
air of thrift and enterprise that is most at
tractive. One or two progressive and en-
terprising men seem to have infused new life
into the town, and spirit of energy and a
determination to make Dade City all it
should be is manifest in everything.
} At st. Augustine, on Monday night,
Mary Angelina Richardson, young colored
girl while walking near DR.. Anderson s
orange groves, was violently assaulted by
James MCGEE and another colored youth
VINO goes by the name of Kiah. The girl
was but 10 years of age, and is now in a
fat..ihla condition Che xx,ao f.afI g., ,....z..A